Since everyone has Frankenstein on the brain: more people should read Ahmed Sadaawi's Frankenstein in Baghdad.

Huge congrats @suyidavies.com!! 🎉🎉🎉

If I don't like your pitch, but you think your work could be right for me, please also feel free to query at the same link! #DVpit

Hi #DVpit, I'm so glad we're back! If I like your pitch please send in your query + first 20 pages or GN pitch or art portfolio at the following link: querytracker.net/query/tkawar...

My sapphic figure skating graphic novel, Just Between Us, is debuting next year 🩷🩷🩷

a canceled streaming subscription is easily converted to several spec fic magazine subs on patreon and similar services, some are as low as 1-2 bucks. the more you know.

bask in the brilliance of this cover!

Welcome to the final reckoning. SEASON OF THE SERPENT 🐍, the final book in The Nameless Republic trilogy, is out from Orbit Books in August 2026. Buckle up.

Now complete! THE CROWNS OF ISHIA, @karinlow.bsky.social 's novella trilogy of indigenous dragonriders seeking to live in balance with the land, resist those that oppress them and find love and family on the frontier concludes in A COVENANT OF ICE. Buy geni.us/ishia

A Covenant of Ice is out today in North Am! It wasn’t written by AI in any way. The cover art is human made. My publisher & editor are cool beans. @solarisbooks.bsky.social If you want to support art being made by humans, for humans, give my anti-colonial, queer+ dragon book a go geni.us/ishia

What Was Built to Be a Ship of Dreams?: The Titanic is a graphic novel for middle grade readers coming from the Who HQ series on July 15th! Proud to have created this small graphic novel alongside @shazleenmkhan.bsky.social! You can preorder it now for the young reader in your life.

“Subverting the Western” - an article I wrote on SciFiNow ahead of the release of A Covenant of Ice this month! @solarisbooks.bsky.social www.scifinow.co.uk/blog/subvert...

The #IgnyteAwards finalists for the Outstanding Novella category is for speculative works ranging from 17,500-39,999 words. Congratulations to the following titles and their authors.

LOST ARK DREAMING is a finalist for best novella! Congrats to @suyidavies.com!!

For Pride Month 🌈, calling all queer book reviewers that would be interested in reading my novella trilogy and giving an honest write up (the central relationship in this world where queerness is not othered is amongst 3 men). DM your email & I’ll send you eARCs. Signal boosting appreciated 🙏🏼

asmr release day

“Just calm down and let people enjoy chatgpt.” Sorry, no. I find it creepy that folks are treating a machine that mimics human speech as their friend / therapist. It is feeding you lies. It is destroying your thinking abilities. Shut it off. Talk to other humans. Go outside.

"I knew it would be a challenge to depict a point-of-view character like Méka who isn’t constantly threatening her world with violence or revolution as The Answer to aggression." @karinlow.bsky.social on The Crowns of Ishia: www.fantasybookcafe.com/2025/04/wome... #Books #BookSky 📚💙 #Fantasy 📚🪐

Lost Ark Dreaming goes Nebula! @sfwa.bsky.social

At 3pm on 9 February 2025, booksellers Mahmoud and Ahmad Muna were accosted by undercover Israeli police. They were arrested at the Educational Bookshop, handcuffed and taken to prison. Over 250 books were confiscated.

🎉 🎂 Happy US Book Birthday to @karinlow.bsky.social's THE DESERT TALON! The adventures of the gunslinging dragon-riders of Ishia continue in the second novella of THE CROWNS OF ISHIA series. Featuring new characters, a new setting, and some familiar faces... https://geni.us/desertt

Very honored to see LOST ARK DREAMING make the Locus recommended reading list this year, alongside a host of excellent works and authors. Congrats to all!

There's a lot of great #kidlit stuff in the @litagentsofchange.bsky.social auction that still has very few bids, so it's still really possible to get in on it! I'm going to call out a few but you can view the entire auction here. givebutter.com/c/MsVK8X/auc...

"Every revolution needs a delulu believer." My latest interview with @clarkesworldmagazine.com is out this morning. I had a blast with @arleysorg.bsky.social, as always. This is the most extensive discussion of LOST ARK DREAMING I've had. Free to read: clarkesworldmagazine.com/okungbowa_in...

Happy LOST ARK DREAMING day. 8 years in the making, if you can believe it. On my blog today, I've laid out---as a release day treat---how this little book came to be, each step of the way. You can read that here: suyidavies.com/updates/jour...

In high towers in the sea in a flooded West Africa, the wealthy live on top; workers below—while the drowned seek vengeance on those who offered them up to the waves. Read an excerpt from Lost Ark Dreaming by Suyi Davies Okungbowa, out now from Tordotcom Publishing. reactormag.com/excerpts-suy...

Karin Lowachee is one of my favorite authors, so I’m always excited to hear about a new book from her. Her next is The Mountain Crown, and it’s about dragons. Here’s my interview with her about it: transfer-orbit.ghost.io/the-mountain...

"An amazing, character-driven story set in a vivid, dystopian world." LOST ARK DREAMING receives its first trade starred review from Library Journal. 🌟 In stores May 21. Preorder wherever you get your books (or ask your local librarian to get a copy & hold it for you!)

Interview up! In which I chat a bit about influence, representation, and the origins of LET ME OUT. horrortree.com/emmett-nahil...

COVER REVEAL!!! My next book takes us back to the Lagos coast, but 80 years into the future! LOST ARK DREAMING, for fans of Snowpiercer, Silo and Rivers Solomon's The Deep, is forthcoming from @tordotcompub.bsky.social on 21 May, 2024. www.tor.com/2023/09/26/c... cc @tordotcom.bsky.social